Summary
Long neglected by historians, the animal is now a subject of study in its own right, telling us a thousand things about society, economy, culture and the religious and symbolic life. Michel Pastoureau gathers forty famous animals, some real (Hannibal’s elephants, the Beast of Gévaudan), others drawn from the Bible, mythology or literature, right up to the Loch Ness monster and Dolly the cloned sheep.
